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Nice! I want to do that one too now

Been learning/playing Long Distance Runaround this weekend. Wanna do Mood for a Day next

We used to have a forum section called the trading post but it was recently removed. I’ve sold a grip of pedals to people through the forum over the years but never through the trading post haha I’m not sure what to tell you on that one

Rabs I love that pic of your little car with the huge pieces of wood!! My car is like a low rider in the back because of all the tools I had some extra material left over on a job site that I used to make some quick floating shelves to hold my pedals. It’s nothing fancy, I’m not even scribing the shelves to the walls of finishing the wood, but it’s a lot better than the pile on the floor. I couldn’t get them all to fit but I think one more shelf could fit the rest

Naturally I’m listening to Polygondwanaland the latest album from King Gizzard. My favorite band this year by far

Here’s a quick sketch of what I would probably do. Give it a small vent on top and make a seperate front panel with a big vent in it which can be (painted matte black and) covered with grill cloth. You could use the Vox diamond pattern grill cloth, white piping, black screws, and black plastic corner protectors to give it a Vox aesthetic. I think you can also buy a Vox handle I would totally build the cabinet for you but shipping would probably be expensive. If you need it, I could cut the pieces and dovetail them and everything and send it flat for you to glue together and tolex

The amp itself looks so cool! The tube with the mesh inside is the EF86, here’s kindof a closeup of a Mullard EF86 I have Personally I would build a new cab. The construction of this cab does not really look nice enough to where paint or tolex will be able to help much. The 1/4” bottom looks warped, kinda loose, and unevenly joined with a butt joint (the least stable joint for this application). It seems like a foolish idea to use 1/4” for the bottom in the first place. It looks like the 1/4” bottom has flexed allowing the 2 piece chassis to get bent up slightly I think Vox used to make a lot of cabinets out of particle board, so I’m assuming the original was destroyed by water or something and the owner at the time did their best to save the amp Although of course I know you don’t want to dump more money into the project, I gotta advise getting a new cab. That cab does not appear to be worthy of the amp.

Rabs those are really coming together man. Did you notice that the carve became kinda asymmetrical around the electronics? The right side is more like a straight line, the left is much more curved. Not to critique of course, just thought if you didn't notice it would be best to change it now before a finish is applied I ordered some hand tools from stewmac for nut, saddle, and fret work so I'm pretty excited to get started with that. Got a really beautiful Warmoth Strat coming in the mail that I got finished by a forum member so that should be pretty badass when it's all together

Congrats Rabs!!! That is great to hear, I'm so happy for you!! Did that go to the vintage Strat guy?

Thanks dude I am literally a professional custom cabinet maker but this is my second amp cab. I would much rather be making amps than kitchens and bathrooms and stuff but it's nice to have all of the tools

Thanks mang. I used the porter cable router in the background with a cheap harbor freight 3/8" round over bit (no router table). With the pine I really don't seem to get any tear out with that bit. With maple or something harder it can be really hard to avoid tearout. Since the face of the cabinet is angled, I didn't attempt to use the router on that part at all. Instead I used a long sanding block with 120 and did it by hand. The radii of the front top and bottom are slightly smaller than the rest of the edges cause that kinda looked right for some reason. Other than the 120 to shape the face, I sanded all of the radiused edges by hand with 220. I didn't want to distort the edges at all which will be covered in a gloss finish. I also did a lot of the cuts involving the facia strips by hand with a Japanese flush cut saw. There were a couple key points that gave me trouble on my Revibe cab which I replaced with careful manual work for this cabinet. Once you blow out a corner or something it's really hard to recover

That is looking amazing dude!!! The reflectors are the perfect choice Now I'm delaying my 5e3 cab build further because I couldn't resist mounting the chassis and speaker to hear how it sounds in the cab. The cab really added a noticeable amount of low end and the amp just sounds bigger and beautifully balanced now. It sounds so sweet with any of my guitars, it's gonna be hard to wait weeks for the finishing to be done so I can put it back together. So happy with the sound from this thing

I know a good joint when I smoke one! Sorry couldn't resist. Thanks. Now that I have some templates made I should be able to make narrow panel tweed style cabs pretty easily. Really enjoying it

The long awaited 5e3 cab is underway.

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No volume adjustment because it's intended to be used with a preamp. This is kindof a modular power amp prototyping dealio

Thanks will do. Here's another project of the weekend. This is a little class D power amp that can put out like 60W. I mainly put this little guy together to test different preamps for a little micro amp idea that I have. It is unbelievably loud for its size and actually sounds great with a tasty preamp. Not going to throw out my tube amps but this will be a really cool portable amp Next on the chopping block: Gonna put together a transistor set for the Pup

Cool stuff guys. Rabs that Dimarzio pot looks like it was made by CTS Just wired up this Strat pickguard

Cool cool COOL man!! Looks like 3 different pots haha. Original 3 way switch?

You know I was checking out the amps I'm revisiting a couple other KEXP YouTube videos. Love this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-CofEQ4iao

Damn when he jumps on the drums that is some skill

What's that?

I hope you enjoy playing with it while you got it! One of my buddies let me borrow an L series Mustang for a while and I have never played such a good sounding Fender but the neck was so tiny it was really hard to play. Couldn't have been more than 1 9/16" nut width. If I could get that sound with a normal neck I would be in heaven, so these L series Strats and Teles really pique my interest Basically if I lived near you I would be running over to your house right now

Looking at those pics I honestly don't think that was brushed on but I'm not looking at it in person. I think the tell tale would be if the edges have "brush strokes" in a different direction or some obvious indication that it was brushed on. What I can see looks like it could be an original finish on a well loved guitar As I'm sure you know, the difference in value between a refinished vintage Strat and an original custom color is HUGE. Black is a really desirable custom color. If that is factory original, you're working on a pretty valuable guitar And like you said of course it could just be an old refinish. Would be great to hear if the original owner had it painted or what. If his brother was the original owner, and thought it was refinished just because he found the sunburst underneath, it could actually be original. Then again, you know a lot of guys had to have seen Jimi or Clapton with a black Strat and got theirs refinished